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PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC

PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,149,544 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,595,085). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.6M
Revenue FY2024
70
Funders on record
$22M
Grants received
$32M
Net assets
38/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%

Against its field

PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.6M) Expenses 100 ($7.8M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 113 ($8.6M) Expenses 104 ($8.1M) Net assets 94 ($24M)2020 Revenue 117 ($8.9M) Expenses 108 ($8.4M) Net assets 102 ($26M)2021 Revenue 177 ($14M) Expenses 128 ($10.0M) Net assets 117 ($30M)2022 Revenue 180 ($14M) Expenses 139 ($11M) Net assets 122 ($31M)2023 Revenue 136 ($10M) Expenses 136 ($11M) Net assets 126 ($32M)2024 Revenue 125 ($9.6M) Expenses 137 ($11M) Net assets 124 ($32M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (125)Expenses (137)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2021 33% · 2022 2% · 2023 14% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$133k
17
$526k
18
$569k
20
$3.6M
21
$2.9M
22
$119k
23
$1.1M
24
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $158k → $739k.

12 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC.

34%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 38% · 2019 51% · 2020 36% · 2021 49% · 2022 51% · 2023 34%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

39% of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 20 states in all.

ME
NH
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
SC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 70 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $1.5M federal, $767k state.

Federal$1.5M
grants $1.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$786k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$724k
State$767k
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23
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$766k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$200

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 13%Fundraising 5%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 25 states

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mayflower Sails 2020 LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC?
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,149,544 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,595,085). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $22,149,544 in grants to PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,595,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 70funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing